BIRTHDAY BASH at the Studio

yes it's nearly that time again, the Studio Birthday Bash is just days away.

Our STUDIO ANNUAL DESIGNER COMPETITION sign up thread closes midnight on 31st August so if you want to get in on this fun competition rush over to the Studio now. We have amazing prizes this year, the winning 3 designers will score a wacom Bamboo Tablet and the top 10 will get an Atomic Cupcake certificate, wow!!

Even if you don't aspire to becoming a digital scrapbooking designer there are already 78 contestants signed up for this contest and so for our Studio Members that means 78 free minikits!!! How cool is that! come on over to the Studio and become a part of our community to grab all these goodies. The contest runs all of September and we have lots going on during our Annual Birthday Bash.

Also mitsybelle Designs and I are running the annual Studio CT LAYOUT COMPETITION, if you'd love to be part of the amazing creative team at the Studio jump to the sign up thread here, we'd love to see what you can create with our kits. And you'll get some lovely kits along the way :)

Okay so I know I have been real quiet when it comes to blogging. I am so busy with life and work and the Studio that I barely have the time anymore but as always I promise to try and be better at it.

I have collaborated with Linda Cumberland and Moon Designs on a fabulous masculine feel kit called Monsieur, you can check it out here. I loved working with these ladies, the designers at the studio are the absolute cream of the crop in my opinion, both as designers and as wonderful women.

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sailing by AJR65 - Studio CT"]Verkeerspark Assen by Renee - Ambowife CT

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Okay here's the freebie I made today from my new kit Gone a Courtin'

Download HERE

enjoy!!

New Kit is up Gone a Courtin'

This New kit "Gone A Courtin'"is a pretty collection of 15 textured Papers and 50 elements to scrap the love in your life. Be it your spouse or friends or family members, hey even your pet, this is the kit for you.

Available at SAS and DPH, so check it out today if you're in the mood for love LOL.  Totally corny eh!!

Included in the element pack are:

* 3 Bead Scatters
* 2 fabric labels
* 2 fourishes
* 1 doodle heart element
* 1 felt heart element
* 3 ric rac'd strung tags
* 1 wrapping bow
* 1 single frame
* 1 double frame
* 1 smaller strung tag
* 1 paper frame
* 1 stitching with holes
* 1 gold safety pin
* 1 camelia flower
* 5 love word bits
* 1 blank word bit
* 5 ric rac
* 5 flat ribbons
* 1 frayed folded ribbon
* 2 butterflies
* 3 bows
* 1 fabric flower
* 5 buttons
* 1 love heart tree
* 1 gold rose border

Here's some previews for a closer look :)

Okay I'll be back later with a freebie or two. I have the dentist at 2pm urgh!! so it will be after that for sure

Tracy

The new Miranda Extras are instore now

A 30 piece set of extra elements to add to Miranda, in store now



8 great BB pages to scrap quickly with Miranda

Available instore HERE



Keep an eye out for the SAS newsletter too you might get something as a bonus, hint hint

Well the voting is on for one more day in the SASy lady competition and out of the 19 designers left only 10 will go onto the final and 4th round to duel it out to see who will be our next 3 SASy designers. So check it out here and vote for your 3 favourite minis, the free minis are in the gallery HERE You have to register to vote.

Good luck to all our contestants they are coming up with some wonderful designs, and this round they aren't allowed to use any commercial use items so it is a real challenge for them all!!

Congratulations also to Flower Scraps aka Deanna aka roacha914 who gave birth this last week to her beautiful new Daughter Evelyn, check out the cutest pics on  De's blog

Just before I sign off, here are some pics I took with the zoom lens on the canon. There were a heap of Lorikeets in our bottlebrush tree out in our front yard so I snapped away in action mode to try and get some closer in shots of them, I took about 150 photos but ended up with a few quite good clear ones, here are just 3 of my favs.



Okay gotta run, things to do dinner to cook and all that LOL

Have a great day all

Tracy

Commercial Use Freebie

Well I have a commercial use freebie,  I thought some of the ladies in the designer competition might like and well I thought some of my readers might like it too so here it is.



Download Here

So the voting is on and the girls are very nervous, just like we all were last year. So if you would like to vote for your 3 favourites in this years SAS-y Designer Competition you have until midnight on 9th September (that's in the US est frame)

So not until the 10th September at 3pm  Aussie time.  You have to be a registered member of stoneaccentsstudio.com to vote and while you are there check out the gallery and download some beautiful kits HERE There are 50 entries in this first round so I am sure you will find something you just have to have LOL

Here's a link to the poll  VOTE NOW , good luck to all of the entrants this year :)

So some of you may be aware that on Saturday I turned 40, yes I am on top of that hill looking down on you all LOL. So we had a lovely quiet day and went out for dinner that evening, I had a yummy steak and dessert, and yes I ate every mouthful LOL. Michael got me some movie tickets and a new drink bottle holder for my bike, the kind you can put vertical on your handlebars so it's a lot easier to use that the one I had.

And I bought a new camera, a Canon eos DSLR 1000D it's gorgeous and it's got a zoom lens bonus too so the commercial use freebie is my first offering from that. Christopher bought me a camera too, but I had already got this one so he is going to take it back and hopefully get the money and give that to us to help pay for this one.

Here's a pic

Okay so that's it for today I might be back with some of the layouts I created with the kits from the competition, mitsybelle and I split them between us and managed to get every kit scrapped with. Phew LOL

Have a great day/night

Hugs

Tracy

A Quickpage for you all

So here is Quickpage number 2 from my Just Because kit, There will be another few freebies from this kit over the weekend so stay tuned :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's a layout I created with the quickpage too :)

Have a great weekend everyone

Tracy

Check out the gallery

I just found out how to add a javascript gallery to my blog, so exciting LOL

So if you click on the gallery link on the tab at the top of the header it will take you to my gallery

of layouts created by me with my kits.

I am thinking of doing another one to show off my CT's layouts too.

So since you all just had a look and got excited with me LOL, here's a freebie Quickpage for you

all. Have fun with it :)

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Here's a layout I made it from using my new kit Red Wine n Rag Time

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Tracy

Look what's new and ON SALE!!!

I am now exclusive to SAS and to celebrate, my New Kit "Red Wine n Rag Time" is on sale at 50% off!!!

That's crazy, you get it for just $2.25. But only till the end of July!!

Check it out in my SAS Store today

16 papers for cropping and 52 pieces to play with in the element set.

Keep an eye out for the freebie samples coming to my blog very soon!!

A Preview of the Freebie While I Wait - Link Now posted

For the zips to upload that is LOL. The links should be up soon.

Firstly a big THANK YOU SO MUCH KISS KISS KISS AND HUGS

to all those who voted for me, or even those who tried to but were having problems with the site.

I appreciate it so much.

If you download this one AND you like it consider casting your vote and if you don't like it don't vote for me but for the kit you DID like the most.

This is my next freebie for you over at stonaccentsstudio.com.

If you haven't joined SAS this month and want these freebies you best run over there and register.

The Designer Competition Gallery

You can download 33 kits from last weeks round and

33 from this weeks round, once they are all uploaded.

So why not join, they have a download a day on at the moment too. There's heaps going on for theirBirthday Bash throughout September.

Well it took me about 36 hours non stop to design this kit. And NO SLEEP!!

That's where it got it's name, cause today, Sunday here, I anticipated being Lazy and doing nothing.

But I'm not LOL.

So this Kit "LAZY SUNDAYS" IS MY FREEBIE FOR THIS WEEKS ROUND.

It's HUGE over 204 MB of pretties.

So that means 20 Papers, 20 Elements And a bonus Quickpage, just waiting for you

The kit includes:

20 Papers

4 frames

1 furry fastener

1 shopping bag

3 Bow Ribbons

1 plain Ribbon

4 digitally painted Flowers

1 Tag on a string

1 floral bulldog clip

a journalling block

a stitched denim patch

and a zipper

and the quickpage....all for free

ENJOY THE FREEBIE

Sorry these files are no longer available,

to purchase the whole kit please see my TTS Store

Plus.... You never know what I might put up here for you to ADD to your stash of Lazy Sunday, so keep your eyes peeled for the freebies here too. I'll be back later with the links and a little surprise maybe, we'll see!!

So the voting commences on Monday at 6 MCT that's in the US. Here in Australia that is 9am Tuesday morning. So join now so you can VOTE for the next Sassy Designer. As before, you can vote for up to 4 Designs and you must be registered there to vote and to download.

Here's a Layout I did with the Kit

I hope you all like the kit and get a lot of enjoyment out of all the kits this week. I have seen Mistybelle's and it's so pretty. Mistybelle lives here in Australia too and she is another who stayed up all night to finish her kit and get it posted LOL. WE love to Design.


My little blinkie I made with my New kit "Lazy Sundays"

HUGS

TRACY